Jimmy Carter opposes
all abortions

On Thursday, Nov. 3, former President Jimmy Carter met for breakfast with reporters at Washington's Ritz Carlton Hotel.

And did he ever have a message for them – which undeniable news making has been widely missing from most of Old Big Media. But the Washington Times quoted this former president as telling the reporters that he condemned all abortion and chastised his party for its intolerance of candidates and nominees who oppose abortion.

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• "I never have felt that any abortion should be committed. I think each abortion is the result of a series of errors," he told reporters.

• "I've never been convinced, if you let me inject any Christianity into it, that Jesus Christ would approve abortion."

The Times had no report of any of the assembled reporters objecting to this former president's injecting his Christianity into it.

Nor was there any report that any of the reporters present asked former President Carter:

• Do you believe that Jesus today would favor denial of an abortion to a 13 year-old who has been impregnated in gang rape – or impregnation by her father, or older brother?

• Should a woman who is the victim of an ectopic pregnancy (where the fertilized egg in the fallopian tubes will kill the mother) be denied abortion?

• In the Bible's absence of any statement or position by Jesus on the actual issue of abortion, shouldn't medical abortion be allowed, rather than condemned as contraception used to be outlawed?

When he ran successfully for president in 1976 – just three years after the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision – Mr. Carter took a moderate stance.

"I think abortion is wrong and that the government ought never do anything to encourage abortion," he said during that campaign. "But I do not favor a constitutional amendment which would prohibit all abortions, nor one that would give states [a] local option to ban abortions."

The former president said his party lost the 2004 presidential elections and lost House and Senate seats because Democratic leaders failed "to demonstrate a compatibility with the deeply religious people in this country. I think that absence hurt a lot."

Democrats must "let the deeply religious people and the moderates on social issues like abortion feel that the Democratic Party cares about them and understands them," he said, adding that many Democrats, like him, "have some concern about, say, late-term abortions, where you kill a baby as it's emerging from its mother's womb."

Mr. Carter told these reporters that the worst treatment he's received from his successor presidents was not from either of the Bush presidents.

"The worst treatment he's received, the former president said, was from President Clinton."